Covalent's Version of Apache 2.0 To Drop Monday

kilaasi points out this CNET story about the planned release on Monday of Apache 2.0, "or at least the version that has proprietary extensions. Covalent sells the core of Apache and its own extensions which make it easier to adapt for specific areas and simpler to administer. Covalent is confident that the next generation Apache is mature and is ready for prime time. Covalent employs some of the core members of the Apache-development-team." XRayX adds a link to Covalent's press release, writing: "It's not clear when the Open Source Edition (or whatever) will come out and I didn't find anything at the official Apache Site." Update: 11/10 16:37 GMT by T : Note that the product name is Covalent Enterprise Ready Server; though it's based on Apache software, this is not Apache 2.0 per se. Thanks to Sascha Schumann of the ASF for the pointer.

Can threads really beat fork(2)?

[imrdkl]

I've always been a bit suspicious of threads, even the latest and greatest kernel threads. Is there someone who can speak to the wisdom and tradeoffs in doing this? I like my fu^Horking apache just the way it is. Programming threads is also hard. What about all of the cool API stuff and plugins, I suppose they all have to be rewritten? Mod_rewrite, mod_perl, etc, etc, yes?

Apache 2.0 is *not* out on Monday

[markcox]

Although the CNet article tells you otherwise, the open source verison of Apache 2.0 is not available on Monday, and as stated in Apache Week, is only just becoming stable enough for another beta release. Covalent are launching a commercial product that is based on Apache 2.0 but with proprietary extensions (the Apache license unlike the GPL allows this). IBM's httpd server has been based on a 2.0 beta for a number of months. Since Covalent say they've made it Enterprise Ready they must have cured the performance and stability problems, when these get contributed back to the main Apache 2.0 tree everyone wins.

Mark Cox, Red Hat